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Health: LibraryQ fever is a highly infectious disease that is carried by animals and passed to humans. People who work with livestock are at highest risk of the disease and it is very prevalent in Queensland. But now there is a vaccine available.

Health MinutesIn partnership with local indigenous people, a treatment group based in Darwin managed to reduce deaths from kidney disese in a Northern Australian indigneous community, until the NT Government intervened.

Health: FeaturesMental illness strikes about one in five Australians, and the figures for rural Australia are even higher. It's a double whammy for the bush: higher risk factors for depression and other mental illnesses, but fewer treatment services available. Is there a solution?

Health: The PulseEvery winter, thousands of older Australians hit the road and head north, escaping the colder months to follow the sun. But many aren't prepared for the lack of medical services in the bush.

Health: The PulseIf you want to have a baby, don't live in the bush. That's effectively the message for pregnant mums in regional and rural Australia, suffering the gradual closure of obstetric services in country hospitals.

Health: FeaturesA young GP escapes city life for a stint in a Northern Territory Aboriginal health service. Here, he learns a home visit can mean a four-wheel drive trip in 40-degree heat to a corrugated iron shed. And the patients can turn up in 'mobs' with health problems he'd only previously seen in textbooks.